so that we ourselves boast in you in the churches of God about your patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring,

a proof of the righteous judgment of God, so that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, on behalf of which also you are suffering,

whenever he should come to be glorified on that day by his saints and to be marveled at by all who believe, because our testimony was believed among you,

for which [purpose] we also pray always for you, that you may be considered worthy of the calling of our God, and he might fulfill every desire for goodness and work of faith with power,

in order that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

that you not be easily shaken from your composure, nor be troubled either by a spirit or by a message or by a letter {alleged to be from us}, to the effect that the day of the Lord has arrived.

Do not let anyone deceive you in any way, for [that day will not come] unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

who opposes and who exalts himself over every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits down in the temple of God, proclaiming that he himself is God.

Do you not remember that [while] we were still with you, we were saying these [things] to you?

And you know that which restrains [him] now, so that he will be revealed in his own time.

and with every unrighteous deception against those who are perishing, in place of which they did not accept the love of the truth, so that they would be saved.

And because of this, God sends them {a powerful delusion} so that they will believe the lie,

in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may progress and be honored, just as also [it was] with you,

and that we may be delivered from evil and wicked people, {for not all have the faith}.

And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are both doing and you will do [the things] that we are commanding.

But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, [that] you keep away from every brother who lives irresponsibly and not according to the tradition that they received from us.

For you yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us, that we did not behave irresponsibly among you,

not that we do not have the right, but so that we may give ourselves [as] an example to you, so that [you] may imitate us.

For even when we were with you, we used to command this to you: that if anyone does not want to work, neither should he eat.

For we hear [that] some among you are living irresponsibly, working [at] nothing, but being busybodies.

Now we command and we exhort such people in the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread.

But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note not to associate with him, in order that he may be put to shame.